Problem with degree sign in Microsoft Word

Hi,

 

The following problem happens with all PDFCreator versions up to 0.9.8:

 

When (at least in Word 2003) a degree sign is used, and a PDF is created from that doc with PDFCreator, an extra space is added further in the sentence. It depends on which character is used for the degree sign.

 

A reproduceable example in Word is:

 

At 360º the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.  [Alt0186]

 

At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.  [Alt248]

 

At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog.  [Alt0176]

 

The Alt codes are used to create the degree sign characters in Word.

 

In the PDF this comes out as:

 

At 360º the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog. [Alt0186]

 

At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy do g. [Alt248]

 

At 360° the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy do g. [Alt0176]

 

In the second and third case, the extra space is created in the word "dog". In the first case it does not happen, but Alt0186 is not a real degree sign. Officially it is a masculine ordinal indicator for the Portuguese language.

 

Could this be a bug in PDFCreator?

Did you find some solution for this problem?

 

Greetz,

Sascha

It seems that the Ghostscript people are finding a solution to this. As this issue is reported twice, please refer to the second thread: http://www.pdfforge.org/forum/open-discussion/5599-incorrect-printing-%C2%B0c

We thought it was fixed, but is seems to be there. Please notice this workaorund for the moment: http://www.pdfforge.org/content/degree-symbol-overlaps-following-character

We hope to finally fix this in PDFCreator 1.2.1

I looked all over google for it!! Thanks for the info..pfff! :)